Faculty

Piano

Deborah Miles

Voice

Bianka Ede

Violin

Annette Dominik
Cvetozar Vutev
Sandra Wilmot

Viola

Cvetozar Vutev

Cello

Martin Kratky

Double Bass

Wiktor Lebeda

Flute

Catharine Dochstader

Clarinet/Saxophone

Sally Arai

French Horn/Trumpet

Bruce Dunn

Country Fiddle/Bluegrass

Cvetozar Vutev

Music Theory

Deborah Miles

Youth String Orchestra

Cvetozar Vutev

Music for Young Children

Jane Dyck

Country Fiddle

Cvetozar Vutev

Bluegrass

Cvetozar Vutev

• Principal Clarinet, Kamloops Symphony (22 years)
• Master of Music (performance) and Bachelor of Music (general),
  University of British Columbia
• Music for Young Children certified teacher
• 24 years clarinet teaching experience
• Festival adjudication experience
• Provincial clinician

• Principal Flute, Kamloops Symphony (27 years)
• Bachelor of Arts (music) and Associate of Music (flute performance), University of Western Ontario
• Ontario Education Certification
• Training in Kodaly, Orff, Suzuki and Yamaha music methods
• 30 years flute teaching experience

• Registered Suzuki ECC/Unit 1-violin teacher
• Trained at Vancouver Academy of Music
• 35 years of orchestral playing
• Extensive chamber music experience
• Founding member of the Kamloops Symphony

• Music Director, Kamloops Symphony (27 years)
• Music Director, Symphony of the Kootenays (15 years)
• Instructor of Orchestral Conducting, University of British Columbia (16 years)
• 30 years french horn performance experience with the Vancouver Symphony, CBC Vancouver Orchestra and National Ballet Orchestra
• 42 years french horn and trumpet teaching experience

• Royal Conservatory of Music ARCT Piano Performer
• Royal Conservatory of Music Grade 4 Piano
• Royal Conservatory of Music grade 10 Violin
• Community member of the Kamloops Symphony - 11 years
• Concertmaster of TRO
• Private violin, piano and cello teacher for 11 years in Kamloops

• Principal Cellist, Kamloops Symphony
• Assistant Principal, Okanagan Symphony Orchestra
• Graduate of the University of Toronto, Bachelor of Music in Performance 
• Graduate of Oberlin Conservatory, Master of Music
• Also Teaches at the Kelowna Community Music school and the Penticton Academy of Music

• Principle Bass, Kamloops Symphony
• Bass player in Vancouver Opera Orchestra, Vancouver Island Symphony Orchestra, Okanagan Symphony Orchestra and others
• Przemysl College of Music in Poland, winning the Polish National Music Competition
• Masters degree in double bass performance from Gnessin Academy of Music in Moscow
• He was professor at institutions such as Lipinski Academy of Music (Wroclaw), National Institute of Music in Tunis, Conservatorio de Tolima, Universidad Central de Bogota

• Over 20 years teaching experience
• ARCT Diploma with the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.
• Participates in local music teacher meetings and attending national and international conferences to keep her skills current.
• She incorporates the study of harmony, counterpoint, analysis, music history, pedagogy and performing into daily planning and training.
• She has had the opportunity to work with a number of distinguished piano teachers such as Alexander Alexandrov, Mary Burns, Robert Rosen, and Janice Dahlberg.

• Master's degree in violin performance under Boyan Lechev at Pancho Vladigerov
• State Academy of Music in Sofia (Bulgaria) in 1990
• Doctorate in musicology and musical arts at Pancho Vladigerov State Academy of Music in 2016
• His violin teachers included also Yfrah Neaman (UK) and Wolfgang Marschner (Germany)
• More than 30 years of violin teaching and performing experience
• Performed in numerous solo, chamber, symphony and opera performances in 12 European countries, Rep.of Korea, Japan and Canada
• Concertmaster with the Kamloops Symphony since September 2005
• Concertmaster with Symphony of the Kootenays since 2016, and first violin player with the Okanagan Symphony since 2006
• Performed several times as a soloist with the Kamloops Symphony and Symphony of the Kootenays
• Music director of Vivace Chorale in Kamloops since 2007
• Music director of Brandenburg Orchestra since 2012
• Received the Kamloops Mayor’s Award for the Arts - Artist of the Year, Performing Arts in 2017

• Over 10 years teaching experience 
• Elementary school teacher 2006-2010
• Coaches violin sectionals for the Okanagan Symphony Youth Orchestra
• Plays regularly with Okanagan and Kamloops Symphony Orchestra